Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…

How long was she stuck there, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 173 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13: robbed, a poor wood-cutter, finds a princess underground» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 stuck	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	cop
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
5	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stuck	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			there		bruv obl; long, stick property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

ages and ages, like her whole life, bruv, since she was married

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ages	cc
3	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ages	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 life	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 life	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 life	amod
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ages	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 life	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 married	punct
12	since	since	SCONJ	_	15 married	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 married	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 married	aux:pass
15	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 ages	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive	ages and ages and her whole life and bruv not said here	she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

five and twenty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 twenty	cc
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 five	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

since she was a young girl, like many decades, going on forever, bruv

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	since	since	SCONJ	_	6 girl	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 girl	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 girl	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 decades	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 decades	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 decades	amod
10	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 girl	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 girl	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 going	compound:prt
14	forever	forever	ADV	_	12 going	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bruv	punct
16	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girl	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a young girl and many decades and bruv					tree rules
2	go on	gerund	she not said here					forever property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

twenty five years, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 five	compound
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bro	punct
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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